Recommended Sites
- eMusic • MP3s for 33¢, without nasty DRM
- Hype Machine • Cool MP3 blog searcher
- Bookmooch • Book trading; you only pay postage
- LibraryThing • Personal book cataloger, reviews, suggestions
- BoingBoing • Excellent compendium of webosity
- Kottke • Jason Kottke’s thoughtful blog
- Toothpaste for Dinner • Hilarious deadpan webcomic
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency • Daily fun
- Netflix • If you rent DVDs, just sign up, OK?
- TidBITs • Weekly Mac news
- A List Apart • CSS and web standards articles
- Arts & Letters Daily • My default page
- Flickr • Photo sharing, annotation, tagging, searching
- Ze Frank • His daily Show was a hoot
- Cook’s Illustrated • The ($) searchable archive is worth it
- Del.icio.us • More links I like, on the social bookmarking site
Recommended Reading
- Possession • A. S. Byatt
- Atonement • Ian McEwan
- Distraction • Bruce Sterling
- Master and Commander &c. • Patrick O’Brian
- How Buildings Learn • Stewart Brand
- A Pattern Language • Christopher Alexander et al.
- Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions • John Michell
- The Empty Space • Peter Brook
- Last Letters from Hav • Jan Morris
- A Short History of Nearly Everything • Bill Bryson
- Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable • Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (et al.)
- On Food and Cooking • Harold McGee
- Little, Big • John Crowley
- Flaubert’s Parrot • Julian Barnes
- Classic Italian Cooking • Marcella Hazan
- Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type • Geoffrey Dowding
- Real World Scanning and Halftones • David Blatner &c.
- The Elements of Typographic Style • Robert Bringhurst
- The History Man • Malcolm Bradbury
- Catch-22 • Joseph Heller
And some recent acquisitions:
